Exodus 9:23

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When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the LORD caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.

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  • Josh 10:11 : 11 As they fled from Israel on the slope leading down from Beth Horon, the LORD threw down on them large hailstones from the sky, all the way to Azekah. They died– in fact, more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.
  • Ps 18:13 : 13 The LORD thundered in the sky; the Most High shouted.
  • Isa 30:30 : 30 The LORD will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.
  • Ezek 38:22 : 22 I will judge him with plague and bloodshed. I will rain down on him, his troops and the many peoples who are with him a torrential downpour, hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
  • Rev 8:7 : 7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there was hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was thrown at the earth so that a third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
  • Ps 78:47-48 : 47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-fig trees with driving rain. 48 He rained hail down on their cattle, and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock.
  • Ps 148:8 : 8 O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,
  • Rev 16:21 : 21 And gigantic hailstones, weighing about a hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people, but they blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, since it was so horrendous.
  • Ps 105:32-33 : 32 He sent hail along with the rain; there was lightning in their land. 33 He destroyed their vines and fig trees, and broke the trees throughout their territory.
  • Rev 16:18 : 18 Then there were flashes of lightning, roaring, and crashes of thunder, and there was a tremendous earthquake– an earthquake unequaled since humanity has been on the earth, so tremendous was that earthquake.
  • Ps 29:3 : 3 The LORD’s shout is heard over the water; the majestic God thunders, the LORD appears over the surging water.
  • Ps 77:18 : 18 Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
  • Exod 19:16 : 16 On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.
  • Exod 20:18 : 18 All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking– and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.
  • 1 Sam 12:17-18 : 17 Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the LORD so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the LORD by asking for a king for yourselves.” 18 So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the LORD and Samuel.
  • Job 37:1-5 : 1 At this also my heart pounds and leaps from its place. 2 Listen carefully to the thunder of his voice, to the rumbling that proceeds from his mouth. 3 Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth. 4 After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard. 5 God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.
  • Job 38:22-23 : 22 Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail, 23 which I reserve for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 9:21-22
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    91%

    21but those who did not take the LORD’s message seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.

    22Then the LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward the sky that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals, and on everything that grows in the field in the land of Egypt.”

  • Exod 9:33-34
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    86%

    33So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain stopped pouring on the earth.

    34When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder ceased, he sinned again: both he and his servants hardened their hearts.

  • Exod 9:24-26
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    84%

    24Hail fell and fire mingled with the hail; the hail was so severe that there had not been any like it in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

    25The hail struck everything in the open fields, both people and animals, throughout all the land of Egypt. The hail struck everything that grows in the field, and it broke all the trees of the field to pieces.

    26Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.

  • Exod 9:28-29
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    82%

    28Pray to the LORD, for the mighty thunderings and hail are too much! I will release you and you will stay no longer.”

    29Moses said to him,“When I leave the city I will spread my hands to the LORD, the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the LORD.

  • Exod 9:17-19
    3 verses
    81%

    17You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.

    18I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

    19So now, send instructions to gather your livestock and all your possessions in the fields to a safe place. Every person or animal caught in the field and not brought into the house– the hail will come down on them, and they will die!”’”

  • Exod 10:12-13
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    12The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left.”

    13So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts!

  • Exod 9:8-10
    3 verses
    78%

    8The Sixth Blow: Boils Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.

    9It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt and will cause boils to break out and fester on both people and animals in all the land of Egypt.”

    10So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.

  • Ps 105:32
    77%

    32He sent hail along with the rain; there was lightning in their land.

  • Exod 10:21-22
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    75%

    21The Ninth Blow: Darkness The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt.”

    22So Moses extended his hand toward heaven, and there was absolute darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.

  • Exod 8:16-17
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    75%

    16The Third Blow: Gnats The LORD said to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Extend your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.’”

    17They did so; Aaron extended his hand with his staff, he struck the dust of the ground, and it became gnats on people and on animals. All the dust of the ground became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • Ps 18:12-13
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    12From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

    13The LORD thundered in the sky; the Most High shouted.

  • Exod 14:26-27
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    26The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward the sea, so that the waters may flow back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen!”

    27So Moses extended his hand toward the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state when the sun began to rise. Now the Egyptians were fleeing before it, but the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

  • Num 14:13
    75%

    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

  • Ps 135:8-9
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    8He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, including both men and animals.

    9He performed awesome deeds and acts of judgment in your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.

  • Exod 7:19-20
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    74%

    19Then the LORD said to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over Egypt’s waters– over their rivers, over their canals, over their ponds, and over all their reservoirs– so that it becomes blood.’ There will be blood everywhere in the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.”

    20Moses and Aaron did so, just as the LORD had commanded. He raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile right before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.

  • Exod 14:16
    74%

    16And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.

  • Exod 10:15
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    15They covered the surface of all the ground, so that the ground became dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the ground and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on the trees or on anything that grew in the fields throughout the whole land of Egypt.

  • Deut 34:11
    74%

    11He did all the signs and wonders the LORD had sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, all his servants, and the whole land,

  • Deut 11:3
    73%

    3They did not see the awesome deeds he performed in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land,

  • Num 20:9
    73%

    9So Moses took the staff from before the LORD, just as he commanded him.

  • Exod 11:9
    73%

    9The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

  • Exod 9:15
    73%

    15For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.

  • Exod 8:5
    73%

    5The LORD spoke to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Extend your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the ponds, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.’”

  • Exod 14:21
    73%

    21Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.

  • Isa 30:30
    72%

    30The LORD will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

  • Exod 3:20
    72%

    20So I will extend my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do among them, and after that he will release you.

  • Exod 4:3
    72%

    3The LORD said,“Throw it to the ground.” So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it.

  • 2 Sam 22:14
    72%

    14The LORD thundered from the sky; the Most High shouted loudly.

  • Ps 78:48
    72%

    48He rained hail down on their cattle, and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock.

  • Exod 7:10
    72%

    10When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, they did so, just as the LORD had commanded them– Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a snake.

  • Exod 32:11
    72%

    11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?